And just how do you deal with Gribblies?

[TeaDidikai]

VisasMarr

Do these Gribblies just show up? Or are they there due to some magical/spiritual working?

That would depend on the Gribbly in my eyes.

I have experienced both- the more common of the two situations being people who don't know what the frell they are doing messing up.

Myself- I actually agree with TatteredAngel. Mostly because there are Mr. Darks out there that can spwan into Thought Forms and I have no desire to feed something that will otherwise not be a problem if simply ignored.

reagun ban

Can something which isn't real hurt you?
No.

Contested to an extent. The lack of something being real cannot hurt you, but the lengths one might go to in order to counter it may hurt many people.

Quote:

Can protecting against something which isn't real hurt you?
No.

See above.

Case in point:

My friend had her cell in her pocket and it autodialed my number. I was tired and I could tell the line was connected and heard people on the other end, but I couldn't tell who it was- so I kept saying "Hello? Hello?"

They freaked and began to tear the room apart to find the gribbly. I eventually hung up.


But their reaction to something that wasn't real had some extended consequences. The ritual they did went awry and they almost lost their home because of it.


We can argue the cause of this for hours- however, if they had put effort into trying to determine if it was a real gribbly and not simply their cell phone and a tired Tea trying to find out why someone was calling her- they would have had a lot easier time of it all.  

[Fiddlers Green]

Research the individual entity, then... one of three things occurs.
1. Implement researched knowledge to destroy it.
2. Implement researched knowledge to banish/bind it.
3. Die trying to accomplish 1 or 2.  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

Research the individual entity, then... one of three things occurs.
1. Implement researched knowledge to destroy it.
2. Implement researched knowledge to banish/bind it.
3. Die trying to accomplish 1 or 2.

The question then is- how do you go about it?  

[Fiddlers Green]

TeaDidikai

Fiddlers Green

Research the individual entity, then... one of three things occurs.
1. Implement researched knowledge to destroy it.
2. Implement researched knowledge to banish/bind it.
3. Die trying to accomplish 1 or 2.

The question then is- how do you go about it?

Well, #3 is easy. sweatdrop
1 and 2 are dependent upon the individual entity in question... everything can be somehow opposed, the trick is finding out how...
Which starts with knowing exactly who and what you are dealing with.  

[Pelta]

1. Figure out why gribbly is bothering me in the first place
1a) Adjust shields
1b) Poke it - if it's a figment of my imagination it'll usually dissipate when I tell it it isn't real.

2. If it's still there, isolate or banish it
2a) Random gribbly = banish
2b) Gribbly that's the product of something else...

3. ...Find out who/what sent it. twisted  

[walkingundine]

So far I've managed with a multistage operation.

1. Shields / defences up
2. If at home, activate existing house defences.
3. Investigate gribbly; if it was sent rather than wandering, trace to sender.
4. Punt gribbly.
5. Quick cleansing ritual.
6. Fine-tune defences.

It seems to work out pretty well. Thanks for the terminology by the way; I had been looking for a word for that kind of entity for quite some time.  

[walkingundine]

TeaDidikai

Fiddlers Green

Research the individual entity, then... one of three things occurs.
1. Implement researched knowledge to destroy it.
2. Implement researched knowledge to banish/bind it.
3. Die trying to accomplish 1 or 2.

The question then is- how do you go about it?

Depending on the situation, here's what I've done:

- Bells & Whistles Approach: ringing bells, clattering pots and pans, lighting lots of candles, sweeping, singing really loudly, chanting persistently, etc. Can work on several kinds of gribbly, especially those to do with solitude or the kind of fear you only get at three in the morning when nobody else is home. Um, downside: These are not all good ideas at three in the morning. Advantage: It'll really shake up whatever stagnant energy you have around, breaking any unwanted stasis you may have been in.

- Representative magic approach: Produce a physical object that in some way resembles or suggests the gribbly. Physically binding or destroying it can help you focus on binding or destroying the actual gribbly. Disadvantage: You don't always have time or materials to be crafty. Advantage: I tell you no lies, I have made this work by washing dirty laundry. I rounded up the mankiest socks I could find, piled 'em in a gribbly-sized heap, and tossed them in the washer. Worked a treat.

-Shooting fish in a barrel approach: Use gratuitous amounts of energy to just punt the thing. Advantage: It's no fuss, no muss- as long as you can spare the juice, and you're pretty sure what kind of gribbly you've got. Disadvantage: ...If you can spare the juice, and you're pretty sure what kind of gribbly you've got.